Mario Biondi Knihy

These richly hypnotic tales enfold the reader into Isaac Bashevis Singer's special world of imps, demons, lovers, and other mischievous creatures. His world is a world of feelings, driven by lust, lechery, greed, madness, and love. All of his creatures are seen with a clear but loving eye; all seem and are in fact possessed by good and evil, caught in fascinating dilemmas, now terrible, now wryly comic. Here is a dazzling new collection of stories from the fertile genius of Isaac Bashevis Singer, one of today's most entertaining and original writers. (from back cover)

È un giorno di ottobre del 1882 e Josef Breuer, psichiatra geniale e medico personale di artisti e filosofi a Vienna, si trova al Caffè Sorrento con Lou Salomé, una giovane donna di straordinaria bellezza. Lou lo ha convocato per una questione urgente che coinvolge il futuro della filosofia tedesca. Preoccupata per la vita del suo amico Friedrich Nietzsche, lo descrive come un pensatore in profonda prostrazione, afflitto da sintomi gravi: emicrania, cecità parziale, nausea, insonnia, febbri e anoressia, che lo portano a usare morfina in dosi pericolose. Breuer, stimato medico e futuro padre della psicanalisi, è oppresso dai legami della vita borghese e turbato dalla sua paziente Bertha. Attraverso Lou, apprende della disperazione di Nietzsche, che diventerà il suo illustre paziente. Breuer sottoporrà il filosofo alle sue cure, convinto che la guarigione del corpo passi attraverso quella dell’anima. Durante le sedute, si instaurerà un dialogo profondo e coinvolgente, in cui Breuer cercherà di scoprire le radici del male oscuro di Nietzsche e indurlo ad aprirsi.

"Sean Courtney was raised in cattle country, and accidently maimed his twin brother Garry as a boy. In inflicting weakness, Sean came to despise weakness in all. This, plus his own strength, was to dictate Sean's iron resolve to win, no matter how much the gamble cost. After a stint fighting the Zulu tribes, Sean trys his luck in the gold fields. Venturing an impossible claim which miraculously proves out, Sean gains wealth beyond counting and power. Power that was unmanageable without cunning. But cunning was an art he was to learn the hard way."

Italian

In 1860 Robyn Ballantyne and her brother return to Africa to search for their missing father and face the terrors of near certain death and the uncertainties of love in the heart of the Dark Continent

[Longman Simplified Fiction]Contemporary / British English It is 1954 and Kabuo Miyamoto is on trial for murder. He is a Japanese American living on the island of San Piedro, off the north-west coast of America. The Second World War has left an atmosphere of anger and suspicion in this small community. Will Kabuo receive a fair trial? And will the true cause of the victim's death be discovered?

Dej románu, sústredený na tri až štyri dni, sa odohráva v druhom roku občianskej vojny v Španielsku. Američan Robert Jordan, univerzitný profesor španielčiny, člen medzinárodnej brigády, je poverený dôležitou úlohou, ktorá má zaistiť úspech chystanej republikánskej ofenzíve. Pracuje v tylenepriateľa ako diverzant a plní svoju úlohu, aj keď sa presvedčil o jej nezmyselnosti. Na charakteroch niekoľkých republikánov, s ktorými sa hrdina románu stretáva pri zabezpečovaní akcie, je zobrazené celé vtedajšie revolučné Španielsko so všetkými problémami, úspechmi aj zmätkami. Autor sa sám zúčastnil ako korešpondent občianskej vojny v Španielsku na strane republikánov.

Rebecca Navarro, Best-Selling Authoress Of Regency Romances, Suffers A Paralysing Stroke. Assisted By Her Nurse, Rebecca Plans Her Revenge On Her Unfaithful Husband. But Will Freddy Royle, Hospital Trustee, Celebrity And Necrophiliac, Thwart Those Plans? Dave Thornton, Soccer Thug, Has Lost His Heart To Flawed Beauty Samantha Worthington. Together They Go In Search Of The Man Who Marketed The Drug That Crippled Her - In Order To Cripple Him. Lloyd From Leith Has A Transfiguring Passion For The Unhappily Married Heather. Together They Explore The True Nature Of House Music And Chemical Romance. Will Their Ardour Fizzle And Die In The Grim Backstreets Of Edinburgh, Or Will It Ignite And Blaze Like A Thousand Suns?

. 8vo pp. 352 Rilegato tela, sovracoperta (cloth, dust jacket) Ottimo (Fine)